...but yeah, the Soviet Union WAS really practicing "real communism". Just like every other communist country is a dictatorship. That's the only way communism can be enforced. And I don't know about you, but my copy of the communist manifesto doesn't say much giving people a choice; it just makes an assumption that communism is a historical inevitability, and that you'd better learn to live with it.
You just totally contradicted youself. None of the countries that claimed to be communist evolved into communism the way Marx and Engels envisioned. The communist manifesto really has nothing to do with the "communism" that those countries practiced. The communist manifesto does not predict that revolution is a necessary step to communism.
...but yeah, the Soviet Union WAS really practicing "real communism". Just like every other communist country is a dictatorship. That's the only way communism can be enforced. And I don't know about you, but my copy of the communist manifesto doesn't say much giving people a choice; it just makes an assumption that communism is a historical inevitability, and that you'd better learn to live with it.
The communism you're thinking of is a Utopian concept that can never exist when people have freedom and choice.
If you actaully read the communist manifesto you will realize that we just have not reached that stage yet. Capitalism has to fail, and that hasn't happened yet, not fully at least. There is no way to prove your point when everything has yet to play out. Of course, if it never does play out, then I guess there really is no way to prove it either way, and I can accept that.
Was it a Pentium III or a Pentium III-m? Are you using linux? Linux doesn't support the earliest version of speedstep on the Pentium III. If I start my laptop up without ac power then it will remain on 500Mhz no matter what, and it will stay on 700Mhz if I booted the computer with ac power. The speedstep options in the kernel specifically state that this version is not supported.
Measured from the far left, he's conservative. Measured from the middle, however, he's quite liberal.
I can tell you are extremely to the right if you think that way. Almost the entire democratic party holding national office are not even left wing. Real left-wingers are few and far between in Washington. They tend to thrive in smaller communities. Washington democrats are pretty middle of the road and are attempting to push the party further to the right.
Lieberman is one of the more conservative democrats in Washington. He is not even close to reflecting the term "liberal". It seems that all the crazy right wingers out there want to associate any Democrat with the word "liberal" in order for them to make it easier to trash them, as they've demonized the word.
Clinton was also strongly left wing, as shown by his attempt to have government take over and
wreck health care.
Yeah sure, he was so liberal that not only did he NOT reform healthcare, but he supported NAFTA which is about the furthest thing from liberal there is. Anyone who considers themself a liberal would not consider Clinton OR Lieberman as liberal. Gore, on the other hand was closer to being a real liberal (superfund, etc), too bad he hid it so much in 2000.
Generally, no. Liberal views tend to flourish in the Democrats, only.
You're not arguing the point that he made, which is that either party can have liberal views on freedom of speech. I would say that libertarians are both conservative AND care about free speech.
Translation: you think that conservatives are bad, and if they are represented in democracy, that is bad.
Here's my translantion of your post. Everyone to the left of Trent Lott is a far-left nutbag bent on destroying America by giving everyone healthcare.
Yes, sometimes, yes. But this is far far too difficult for average user to do.
make modules modules_install
Now was that really that hard?
Not to mention getting it installed. I just installed Epson scanner into FC2 and it was huge pain. The reason is 99% because Linux USB (hotplug) "just sucks".
Are you using udev? It's been a breeze for me. My usb key shows up as a consisten device node now.
Not to mention that Mr. Torvalds insist on non-binary drivers (insane).
Saying you can't swear on publicly owned TV or radio is like saying you can't swear in a publically owned library. Swearing in a publically owned courthouse can land you in the tank if the judge is in a bad mood. Swearing in my home can get you a punch in the face.
That's exactly the problem. Those places are public. I could understand the ability to limit speech (not by way of law though) in a private establishment, but public places are the last places that your freedom should be limited. How is speech free at all if it is limited publicly?
Yeah. It's quite consistent, actually. The indecency laws, first of all, are statutes. The people of the United States, through legislation, have made indecent speech between the hours of 6 a.m. and 11 p.m. over only one medium, broadcasting, unlawful. They have invested in this commission authority to enforce that law. The commission does it in response to the complaints from the public. Many people have tried to argue that we should be like the FBI on indecency and be affirmative, that we should go out and listen to television and radio. We don't do that. We wait for the American people to complain, and then we act on complaints. What has happened in the period you've identified is indecency complaints have skyrocketed.
What a load of bull. Check the statistics. Something like 99% of the complaints are from the same group who spend all day watching TV just to complain about "indecency" based on their own standard. The FCC only gets something like 200-300 "real" complaints a year. The sudden increase is soley due to this one group. I personally don't want one narrow minded group deciding what is best for me.
One of the biggest firestorms was over this national cap [on what percentage of the national television audience a single owner can reach], whether it was 35 percent [the former cap], 45 percent as we suggested, or 39 percent, which Congress picked. Going to 45 percent means maybe one to two more stations per network in the United States. That's all that means. So a broadcast network is only allowed to reach with its product 45 percent of America.
But why can cable reach 100 percent? Satellite television can reach 100 percent. The Internet reaches 100-plus, if you want to go outside the U.S.
That's a ridiculous argument. The major difference here is that while it's true that you can have 100% internet saturation, so does everyone else! You can't really cut anyone out. It's a similar situation with the other services he mentions. The broadcast spectrum is limited.
While this is true there are programs that ran on 98 that don't run on XP. If they don't make a newer version of the program you are SOL. With OSS you just recompile, which is relatively painless for small applications. Even if a simple recompile doesn't work it is still possible to modify the source to get it to work.
That way, GNOME and KDE could just be seperate shells on top of the same desktop, and they would happily run each other's apps.
That seems pointless to me. Why wouldn't you just make one shell with all the options of GNOME and KDE? It seems like after you got everything to work as one DE with different shells, you would only be one small step away from merging them completely into one.
I do think GNOME and KDE should integrate as much as they can to keep things compatible and consistent BUT it's good to have two seperate environments, especially since they seem to aim at different crowds. Also, competition is a good thing.
I'd also request a kernel driver API that unties them from the kernel--recompiling an entire kernel to support a new scanner I just bought is ridiculous. I should just be able to go online and download a special binary driver
I'm confused by this. You don't need to recompile your kernel to include a new driver. You can build modules without rebuilding the entire kernel. Also I build the madwifi-driver, which is partially proprietary and outside of the kernel, without having to recompile the kernel.
This is great for people who buy a whitebox 2nd computer, but might actually care about not pirating MS Office. Or for people who get some OEM crippled Office, like Works, which comes with Word and not much else.
Works doesn't come with Word, at least versions 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0 don't/didn't. Works comes with the Microsoft Works Word Processor, which usually does not support the latest.doc format.
They probably can't. IANAL but even though this is a product predominately engineered by Sun employees, I assume the licensing issues that Linux distributions have encountered with java are most likely issues that the OOo team has also encountered and which prevents them from including java.
Actually that's not true. Jesus wasn't born in December. In fact the 25th of December is a pagan holiday (The Cult of Mithras) celebrating the rebirth of the sun. The 25th of December is when the days begin to grow longer again.
But look at the whole.NET thing. Plus have you seen Windows 2003 Server? Man, I am amazed at how they've done a 180 on their old position. It's nice to have change coming from MS. Standards and security are definitely getting a higher priority than before.
What does.NET and W2K3 have to do with standards and security?
Amusingly, both the Los Angeles Valley and Mexico City had smog before the invention of the combustion engine.
It's just ten times worse now then it was before the combustion engine was invented.
The bulk of the gasses we currently believe are contributing to global warming are totally invisible. The next time you point to smog and start to tell yourself you can see the roots of global warming, remind yourself that in fact you cannot.
Wow, who the hell ever said that? You really took my words with you and ran. My whole point was even if you disregard global warming altogether, there is still a benefit to reducing emissions.
I'm not arguing your point; I agree that reducing emissions is critical. That said, your example is worthless, and your tone towards the parent utterly unwarranted. This is the sort of thing which, if said on the city street, often leads to a missing tooth.
Funny, because I do live in the city and I assure you that threats like that will end up right back in your face.
If the earth is warming because it is SUPPOSED to be warming, say due to the documented increase in sunspot activity being related to increased solar output, then Kyoto means destroying our economy just to boost the self esteem of a few hippy freaks.
Are you utterly clueless? Have you seen the Los Angeles skyline, or worse Mexico City? Decreasing emissions is beneficial whether or not they cause global warming. The first thing the government should be thinking about is the health of the people, not the economy.
That's funny because the first site that popped up when I searched for statistics showed that 60% of people used either hotmail or yahoo, which is more in line with what i've encountered. People rarely use email clients anymore compared to webmail.
It sounds like your numbers were taken from 1997 not 2004. Just the fact that those numbers show almost 3 times as many people use the full Outlook suite as AOL is absurd.
Why would the Gentoo people NOT want to make their product easier to use, and thus more likely to be used by more people???
There is a very simple answer to that. Gentoo is not a product. Gentoo is a community. There isn't a profit to be made by increasing user base. If anything, more users, especially inexperienced ones, could cause the gentoo forums to collapse into a blackhole of unanswered, and often duplicate, questions.
Thank god someone has their head on straight. Some people just don't understand that the crime associated with drugs is created by prohibition not actual drug use. This "war on drugs" will never be won. Prohibition never worked and people are crazy for thinking that it will. We've wasted billions of dollars and many lives trying to prove that it can be done and yet the drug trade has not even slowed. Education is the only thing that will work. Teach kids about the downfalls of illicit substances but don't lie to them. The lies that come out about benign drugs such as marijuana and mushrooms only serve to desensitize kids to drugs when they realize that marijuana won't kill them or cause them to get raped or whatever asinine position the government is supporting at the time.
Actually in the US it varies from state to state. The state's have different laws when it comes to driving/roads/etc. That's why the speed limit is different in different states. That's also why it is easy to get a driver's license in some states and harder in others.
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You just totally contradicted youself. None of the countries that claimed to be communist evolved into communism the way Marx and Engels envisioned. The communist manifesto really has nothing to do with the "communism" that those countries practiced. The communist manifesto does not predict that revolution is a necessary step to communism.
If you actaully read the communist manifesto you will realize that we just have not reached that stage yet. Capitalism has to fail, and that hasn't happened yet, not fully at least. There is no way to prove your point when everything has yet to play out. Of course, if it never does play out, then I guess there really is no way to prove it either way, and I can accept that.
That's still being debated.
I've seen some of the still classified documents. They're real, no question about it.
Ok sure, don't be offended when I don't take your word for it.
There is no factual basis, whatsoever, for your claim.
There are is no factual basis for your claims either. Nothing that can be proved.
Was it a Pentium III or a Pentium III-m? Are you using linux? Linux doesn't support the earliest version of speedstep on the Pentium III. If I start my laptop up without ac power then it will remain on 500Mhz no matter what, and it will stay on 700Mhz if I booted the computer with ac power. The speedstep options in the kernel specifically state that this version is not supported.
I can tell you are extremely to the right if you think that way. Almost the entire democratic party holding national office are not even left wing. Real left-wingers are few and far between in Washington. They tend to thrive in smaller communities. Washington democrats are pretty middle of the road and are attempting to push the party further to the right.
Lieberman is one of the more conservative democrats in Washington. He is not even close to reflecting the term "liberal". It seems that all the crazy right wingers out there want to associate any Democrat with the word "liberal" in order for them to make it easier to trash them, as they've demonized the word.
Clinton was also strongly left wing, as shown by his attempt to have government take over and wreck health care.
Yeah sure, he was so liberal that not only did he NOT reform healthcare, but he supported NAFTA which is about the furthest thing from liberal there is. Anyone who considers themself a liberal would not consider Clinton OR Lieberman as liberal. Gore, on the other hand was closer to being a real liberal (superfund, etc), too bad he hid it so much in 2000.
Generally, no. Liberal views tend to flourish in the Democrats, only.
You're not arguing the point that he made, which is that either party can have liberal views on freedom of speech. I would say that libertarians are both conservative AND care about free speech.
Translation: you think that conservatives are bad, and if they are represented in democracy, that is bad.
Here's my translantion of your post. Everyone to the left of Trent Lott is a far-left nutbag bent on destroying America by giving everyone healthcare.
make modules modules_install
Now was that really that hard?
Not to mention getting it installed. I just installed Epson scanner into FC2 and it was huge pain. The reason is 99% because Linux USB (hotplug) "just sucks".
Are you using udev? It's been a breeze for me. My usb key shows up as a consisten device node now.
Not to mention that Mr. Torvalds insist on non-binary drivers (insane).
You might want to take a look at the GPL.
That's exactly the problem. Those places are public. I could understand the ability to limit speech (not by way of law though) in a private establishment, but public places are the last places that your freedom should be limited. How is speech free at all if it is limited publicly?
What a load of bull. Check the statistics. Something like 99% of the complaints are from the same group who spend all day watching TV just to complain about "indecency" based on their own standard. The FCC only gets something like 200-300 "real" complaints a year. The sudden increase is soley due to this one group. I personally don't want one narrow minded group deciding what is best for me.
One of the biggest firestorms was over this national cap [on what percentage of the national television audience a single owner can reach], whether it was 35 percent [the former cap], 45 percent as we suggested, or 39 percent, which Congress picked. Going to 45 percent means maybe one to two more stations per network in the United States. That's all that means. So a broadcast network is only allowed to reach with its product 45 percent of America.
But why can cable reach 100 percent? Satellite television can reach 100 percent. The Internet reaches 100-plus, if you want to go outside the U.S.
That's a ridiculous argument. The major difference here is that while it's true that you can have 100% internet saturation, so does everyone else! You can't really cut anyone out. It's a similar situation with the other services he mentions. The broadcast spectrum is limited.
True, but if there is a demand someone will surely modify the source and package it up for you. At least this is possible.
While this is true there are programs that ran on 98 that don't run on XP. If they don't make a newer version of the program you are SOL. With OSS you just recompile, which is relatively painless for small applications. Even if a simple recompile doesn't work it is still possible to modify the source to get it to work.
That way, GNOME and KDE could just be seperate shells on top of the same desktop, and they would happily run each other's apps.
That seems pointless to me. Why wouldn't you just make one shell with all the options of GNOME and KDE? It seems like after you got everything to work as one DE with different shells, you would only be one small step away from merging them completely into one.
I do think GNOME and KDE should integrate as much as they can to keep things compatible and consistent BUT it's good to have two seperate environments, especially since they seem to aim at different crowds. Also, competition is a good thing.
I'd also request a kernel driver API that unties them from the kernel--recompiling an entire kernel to support a new scanner I just bought is ridiculous. I should just be able to go online and download a special binary driver
I'm confused by this. You don't need to recompile your kernel to include a new driver. You can build modules without rebuilding the entire kernel. Also I build the madwifi-driver, which is partially proprietary and outside of the kernel, without having to recompile the kernel.
Works doesn't come with Word, at least versions 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0 don't/didn't. Works comes with the Microsoft Works Word Processor, which usually does not support the latest .doc format.
They probably can't. IANAL but even though this is a product predominately engineered by Sun employees, I assume the licensing issues that Linux distributions have encountered with java are most likely issues that the OOo team has also encountered and which prevents them from including java.
Actually that's not true. Jesus wasn't born in December. In fact the 25th of December is a pagan holiday (The Cult of Mithras) celebrating the rebirth of the sun. The 25th of December is when the days begin to grow longer again.
What does .NET and W2K3 have to do with standards and security?
That still shouldn't crash firefox.
I have a hard time beleiving that one day evolution will just automatically run a perl script attachment and infect my computer with a virus.
It's just ten times worse now then it was before the combustion engine was invented.
The bulk of the gasses we currently believe are contributing to global warming are totally invisible. The next time you point to smog and start to tell yourself you can see the roots of global warming, remind yourself that in fact you cannot.
Wow, who the hell ever said that? You really took my words with you and ran. My whole point was even if you disregard global warming altogether, there is still a benefit to reducing emissions.
I'm not arguing your point; I agree that reducing emissions is critical. That said, your example is worthless, and your tone towards the parent utterly unwarranted. This is the sort of thing which, if said on the city street, often leads to a missing tooth.
Funny, because I do live in the city and I assure you that threats like that will end up right back in your face.
Your mountain of evidence is just so intimidating. If you didn't catch that, it was sarcasm.
Well then maybe we should stop giving them legal personhood.
You'll be seeing them in Kmart real soon.
Are you utterly clueless? Have you seen the Los Angeles skyline, or worse Mexico City? Decreasing emissions is beneficial whether or not they cause global warming. The first thing the government should be thinking about is the health of the people, not the economy.
It sounds like your numbers were taken from 1997 not 2004. Just the fact that those numbers show almost 3 times as many people use the full Outlook suite as AOL is absurd.
Pfft. Who needs an email client when you have telnet?
There is a very simple answer to that. Gentoo is not a product. Gentoo is a community. There isn't a profit to be made by increasing user base. If anything, more users, especially inexperienced ones, could cause the gentoo forums to collapse into a blackhole of unanswered, and often duplicate, questions.
Thank god someone has their head on straight. Some people just don't understand that the crime associated with drugs is created by prohibition not actual drug use. This "war on drugs" will never be won. Prohibition never worked and people are crazy for thinking that it will. We've wasted billions of dollars and many lives trying to prove that it can be done and yet the drug trade has not even slowed. Education is the only thing that will work. Teach kids about the downfalls of illicit substances but don't lie to them. The lies that come out about benign drugs such as marijuana and mushrooms only serve to desensitize kids to drugs when they realize that marijuana won't kill them or cause them to get raped or whatever asinine position the government is supporting at the time.
Actually in the US it varies from state to state. The state's have different laws when it comes to driving/roads/etc. That's why the speed limit is different in different states. That's also why it is easy to get a driver's license in some states and harder in others.